The Engineer in the Half-Space
You are reading interview loop feedback. You are going through the notes and it looks like neither a nogo nor a go. You are divided in your head too. Mitch does not seem to scor...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
A few weeks ago we were discussing a Java component that starts a Spark cluster. Its job is mostly coordination. It starts the machinery, passes configuration around, waits for...
Too Liked to Be Useful
I often get surprised when I hear someone say they like a certain manager. I usually have very different reservations about them in my head. The gap between what I think and wha...
Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer
More than a decade ago, I wrote about . At the time, I didn’t realize how deeply people had tied their professional identity to Java. My goal was to distinguish between someone...
When Code Is Cheap, Does Quality Still Matter?
The other day we were having a casual conversation on quality and looking at a few code examples. If you want serious engineering, you want your code to use a few principles lik...